Readers: Speak up for your 'crap town'

The market town of Chipping Norton in the Cotswolds might be posh and stuffy but is it really crap? Residents defend your UK town in this open thread. Photograph: jim forrest/Alamy

The hotly awaited second edition of Crap Towns, “back by unpopular demand”, is set to spark another ferocious debate as it whittles down the top 100 longlist to 50 of the UK's worst places to live.

While Hackney, Liverpool, Hull, Blackpool and Merthyr Tydfil still feature in the list, this year some may be surprised to see richer market towns joining the industrial scrapheaps – including Chipping Norton, Oxford and Norfolk.

The first edition of Crap Towns was published in 2003 and sold more than 100,000 copies. Some towns included in this year's longlist are perhaps more expected than others – the authors Sam Jordison & Dan Kieran started the endeavour after being unimpressed at the state their hometowns of Morecambe in Lancashire and Alresford in Hampshire. But this year the editors expect the inclusion of places like Brighton, Gateshead, Stratford-upon-Avon, Newquay, Bury St Edmunds and Mayfair to cause some controversy.

Has your town made the top 100? Save it from the final top 50 cut by speaking up for your town here. Why it's great not crap, and why people really do enjoy living there? We'll feature the best comments here in the blog.

The Crap Towns publishers are also encouraging people to comment on their website and post on Twitter in defence or support of the inclusion of a crap town using the hashtags #craptown or #notacraptown with the chance of winning a prize.

So it's over to you – take a look at the full longlist below and tell us why your town is decidedly the opposite of crap and should be saved from the Crap Towns shortlist in a comment. Read the full story here.